It Happened in Persia

If I perish, I perish! Those words probably mean little in Western society where people routinely use expressions like “I’ll just die” or “kill me now” when encountering the least bit of difficulty. But 2,500 years ago in Persia (modern Iran), those words were extraordinary. They were spoken by Esther, a Jewish woman who had become queen of Persia when it ruled the world and whose dec